[systemd-devel] [PATCH] Fix install location of systemd.pc

[Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek]

On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 03:01:12PM +0000, Simon Peeters wrote:
> 2014-12-29 13:02 GMT+00:00 Martin Pitt <martin.pitt at ubuntu.com>:
> > Mike Gilbert [2014-12-28 12:41 -0500]:
> >> From Lennart's commit message, it seems like this was done intentionally.
> >
> > The addition of libdir was certainly intentional, that's why I didn't
> > propose to just remove libdir. But it looks like this was just missing
> > to adjust the install location accordingly?
> 
> just my 2c:
> 
> well, the addition of libdir was to be able to find the libdir for the
> "primary" arch (however you might define that), moving the pc file
> with this info to $libdir/pkgconfig makes that argument moot since you
> need to know libdir in order to know libdir.
> 
> So if I can follow lennart correctly there are 2 possible ways:
> - have libdir in the pc file in /usr/share and make it to denote the
> "primary" arch (which is the current situation)
> - not have libdir in the pc file at all and still have the pc file in
> /usr/share (since libdir does not make sense if the file is in
> $libdir/pkgconfig, and it is the only reason why it might not belong
> in /usr/share)
> 
> I have no preference between the 2, but moving the pc file to
> $libdir/pkgconfig just does not make sense.

What is $libdir in the .pc file used for? If we can answer that, it'll
be clearer whether status quo is correct.

Zbyszek